Cork-puller.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CORK-FULLER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 16, 1907'.

Application flled .Tune 20,1906. Serial No. 322,509.

To all who/'rb t nw/,y concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLns S. Rims, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia andState of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Cork-Fullers, of which the following is a specification.

My inventlon has relation to a handy device for readily pulling a corkfrom the neck of a bottle; and in such connection it relates to theparticular construction and arrangement of the device for such purpose.v

The principal objects of my invention are, first, to provide a simpleand effective device for pulling or removing a cork from a bottle, and,second, to provide a device of the character described in which when thecorkscrew and fulcrum-piece of the device are out of operative relationto each other such can be readily folded onto each other, within ahousing arranged to receive the same, out of the Vway of theoperating-handle of the device.

The nature and scope` of my present invention will be more fullyunderstood from the accompanying drawings, taken in connection with thefollowing description of my said invention, in which- Figure l is anelevational view of a corked bottle with the screw and lever-arm of thepulling device embodying the main features of my invention inapplication to the cork and bottle-neck edge, showing, by the employmentof said device, the manner of readily extracting or removing the corktherefrom. Fig. 2 is an underneath plan view of the device, showing thecorkscrew and the fulcrumpiece closed onto each other within a housingarranged therefor and the operating-handle of the device. Figs. 3 and 4are cross-sec tional views on the lines 9; and y y of Fig. 2, showingthe detail arrangements of the baseplate fitting into the housing andfrom which plate the corkscrew and fulcrum-piece of the device arepivotally supported; and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the base-plate,to which the 4cork-screw and fulcrum-plece of the device arerespectively pivoted, but shown detached therefrom, and also showing theparticular formation of the bearings for supporting the pivotal members.

lReferring to the drawings, c is the corkpulling device, provided,preferably, with a semicircular oblong housing a', with a contractedtongue a2, to which is fitted a wood or other type of handle l).

c is a slightly-curved oblong metal plate having struck up from thesides of the same oblong bearings c and c2 for receiving, by means of aivot c5, a corkscrew d, in rear of which corljscrew in the plate c arestruck up circular perforated bearings c'd and c4 for receiving afulcrum-piece e, which is connected with said bearings by means of a pinor pivot c6. The fulcrum-piece e is offset at the free end and formedinto a projection e for engaging the surface f of the bottle-neck, whilethe offsets e2 and e3 thereof engage the upper edge of the neck of thebottle A.

The base-plate for pivotally supporting the two operative members of thedevice is secured in the housing, preferably by being riveted thereto,at g and g', as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 5. The pivotal members ofthe plate c are arranged so as to lap over onto each other in an inoerative position thereof, with the corkscrew simply fitting or nestingiIn the fulcrum-piece e, as clearly shown in iig. 2.

In the position of the device as shown in Fig. 1 with the fulcrum-piecee in engagement with the surface and edge at two points of the neck ofthe bottle A and with the cork screw d in engagementwith the cork h inthe neck of the bottle and by o erating the handle b and therewith thefu Crum-piece e the cork can be quickly extracted or removed by beingdrawn upward from the bottle-neck, as can be readily understood fromFig. 1, without breaking or cracking the neck .of the bottle ineffecting the result. By the arrangement of the plate c in the housinga, carrying and supporting pivotally therefrom the working members ofthe device, as hereinbefore explained, in case of breaka e of either ofthem this plate can be readiIy removed by drawing out the rivets orother securing means holding the said plate and substituting .thereforanother, as occasion may require.

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention, what Iclaim as new, and desire tosecurel by Letters Patent, is A cork-pullingdevice, comprising a lever element having a channeled or hollowed-outportion extending longitudinally thereof, a plate bent transversely toconform to the shape of said hollowed-out portion fixed therein to saidlever element and having two sets of earsbent up into said hollowed-outportion from the o posite sides thereof, a corkscrew and a fucrum-piece, each pivot- ICO IOS

ally mounted between the ears of one of seid signature in the presenceof two subscribing sets to swing `1n the same plame7 sind fulermu-Witnesses. pleee belng bent transversely to lt when folded Within saidhollowed-otit po'tion and CHARLES S' KEES' 5 to then receive in thechanneled. or hoHoWed- Witnesses:

out face the corkscrew when folded. J. WALTER DoUGLAss,

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my THOMAS M. SMITH.

